Programming note: This blog will be relatively quiet for the next couple of weeks. However, at some point on Sunday or Monday (or both), I’ll be blogging during a quick trip to New Orleans.

Back-linking love: Scott Karp: “Blogging is the new novel/screenplay writing“ Also: Mike Arrington.

Meme of the day: Trebuchet MS is to Web 2.0 what the swoosh was to Web 1.0. Or, as we say: When all logos look the same, they cease to be logos.

del.icio.us going ajaxy: I’m going to remain old-school when it comes to any interface design evolution at del.icio.us. Perhaps tapping into my preference for web design that springs forth from an html minimalist tradition, the interface of del.icio.us communicates to me that each page is not only a display of information, but also a working document — there is no “admin” area, each page is a place I can work and view simultaneously. I just noticed recently (it may have been a feature for a while, but I’ve just now noticed it) that del.icio.us is adding some subtle features to their site that only hardcore users may notice, but that add to the website-as-software-tool feeling of the site. For example, the “edit” feature has some added ajaxiness so that you don’t have to re-load a new page to make changes — an edit box now simply slides down from the text you’d like to change. Doing things like this, rather than caving into the “redesign” temptation, will help the del.icio.us team provide a much-needed model to web designers (and their clients) for how fat-rounded-fonts are not what is special about that which is being called Web 2.0.

First, blame Janet Jackson: The Tennessean today is reporting the company broadcasting Titans games is now delaying the the coverage by 12 seconds to avoid being fined by the FCC.

Quote from Citadel Broadcasting Market Manager Dave Kelly:

“If someone in the stands screams something out and it gets picked up on a crowd mike and it goes out over the network, there is a zero-tolerance policy with the FCC for about a $325,000 fine per incident. In order to be able to do what we do with these live broadcasts there are things that are outside of our control that could literally cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars. Because of the FCC, there’s not an option on this.”

While I strongly doubt the credibility of Mr. Kelly’s specific hypothetical scenario to justify the 12-second delay, the fact that he uses it is a display of the chilling effects a regulatory policy can have on things totally unrelated to the “problem” the policy was intended to “solve.”

Moral of story: Jeff Jarvis is right. Paternalistic policies intended to muzzle Howard Stern end up muzzling everyone.